What is your favorite computer operating system?

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Linux From Scratch, because I enter into a very intimate relationship with my system and understand, if not necessarily on the level of reading source code (though I can), how the system works and why it does what it does.

Mine is windows 7 because now a day it is a common thing that many people use,I am also using some software like crm and they are really useful not only for IT stuff but also in some business specially if you are managing customer satisfaction.

Gentoo and FreeBSD are my favouries, in order too.

My sentimental favorite was VMS, but DEC died a long while ago.

My practical favorite is some flavor of UNIX.

ruveyn

I like Windows 7, and I liked XP. I don't think Windows 8 is as horrible as it is made out to be. It's different.
I still have a strange attraction to DOS and Windows 3.1, and whenever I install it on something, I cannot for the life of me figure out why. No memory, networking is a nightmare. Maybe because shutdown is pretty instantaneous, and there was a time when squeezing all the memory out of it one could was really fun.

I also like Linux Mint. I have used and dabbled in Linux for a very long time. At one time I said the only reason I don't settle on Linux is because Star Wars Galaxy Online (now SWGEMU) didn't run on it. I run a copy of Linux Mint using VirtualBox. I also have Debian installed on a VirtualBox. I use to have Ubuntu, but I just don't care for the interface anymore.

Obviously, I really don't have a favorite OS, so I'm wasting your time. Sorry.

I have not mention the Mac. I have some older Mac 7 computers. My first computer was an Apple, but a computer is only has useful as what you can do with them, and my old Macs just sit in the basement next to my Convergent Mightyframe mini computer. That sounds impressive but is was basically the size of a very large and heavy tower. It ran CTIX was a licensed copy of AT&T UNIX. It's not y2k compliant, and my computer I use as a Minecraft server runs circles around it.

Surprised no ones mentioned Arch Linux, I love Arch, the rolling release aspect of it is great. Never tried Gentoo and I hate Ubuntu. I think Fedora, FreeBSD, and so on are ok but nothing really compares to Arch IMO.

I don't have a favorite. They are all the same to me.

am not a windows user and regulary change the distro on the hard drive to properly test them out,have got kali linux,mint fifteen,ubuntu studio and hirens boot cd booting on a USB stick.

been trying to get kali linux installed for weeks but somehow regardless of the ISO its missing install options on the boot menu,so am stuck with using it from USB.
have got mint fifteen sixty four bit installed on HDD,its better than ubuntu tbh,have used ubuntu since the earliest days of it,but mint seems more polished.
am going to go crazy if kali doesnt get installed,its an incredible distro,its come on so much since the last back track,love the programs on kali but its not a distro thatd appeal to anyone who doesnt give a damn about pen testing.

as for arch as mentioned by another user, arch sucks for user friendliness,no straight forward text/GUI install plus the ISO comes without a desktop environment by default; unless had got the wrong one.
it might make it the hardcore geeks drool but theyre ignoring a huge userbase which coud be driving money to their development.

I like Windows 7, and I liked XP. I don't think Windows 8 is as horrible as it is made out to be. It's different.
I still have a strange attraction to DOS and Windows 3.1, and whenever I install it on something, I cannot for the life of me figure out why. No memory, networking is a nightmare. Maybe because shutdown is pretty instantaneous, and there was a time when squeezing all the memory out of it one could was really fun.

I also like Linux Mint. I have used and dabbled in Linux for a very long time. At one time I said the only reason I don't settle on Linux is because Star Wars Galaxy Online (now SWGEMU) didn't run on it. I run a copy of Linux Mint using VirtualBox. I also have Debian installed on a VirtualBox. I use to have Ubuntu, but I just don't care for the interface anymore.

Obviously, I really don't have a favorite OS, so I'm wasting your time. Sorry.

I have not mention the Mac. I have some older Mac 7 computers. My first computer was an Apple, but a computer is only has useful as what you can do with them, and my old Macs just sit in the basement next to my Convergent Mightyframe mini computer. That sounds impressive but is was basically the size of a very large and heavy tower. It ran CTIX was a licensed copy of AT&T UNIX. It's not y2k compliant, and my computer I use as a Minecraft server runs circles around it.

I like Linux Mint. Ubuntu is not as good as it used to be and I like the fact that Flash is already included in Mint in case I mess things up. I can go into a live session and fix it from there.

Skynet.

Have Windows 7 on PC
Android on phone
Have used 2 flavours of linux in past, Red hat and Ubuntu. Thinking of trying out linux mint.

Mac